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William Glackens, a Bridge Between Old and New

By

Willard Spiegelman

April 2, 2014 4:35 p.m. ET

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

'The pursuit of color is hard on drawing just as the pursuit of drawing is hard on color." So wrote the American painter and illustrator William Glackens (1870-1938) to his longtime friend Albert C. Barnes, for whose great collection he served as adviser.

Glackens was turning his attention from the magazine illustrations and pen-and-ink drawings with which he began his career to the brightly...